Travel Blogs from Ottawa

I've been in Ottawa for the last week and thinking a lot about my love/hate relationship with this place. I love that I have so many memories all around the city, I love the friends I still have here after so many years.

Soooo it's been a few days, and to say the least it has been busy busy busy. Not so busy that we aren't enjoying the experience but have to say that we are looking forward to a little down time and doing a little cooking on our own ( didn't think I'd say that lol). Florence was quaint and such very nice people, very slow ...

Interspersed among other fun stuff today, I have managed to gather up most of what I need to get packed to leave tomorrow. Toiletries, bottles filled - check Electronic stuff gathered up - check. How did we travel without all this stuff before? Remember post cards? Ironing done (yes, I still do iron stuff) - check Camera stuff - still undecided - to take the digital SLR or not? Hoping I can talk myself into it. I will have some down time and it would be great to have my ...

... br> The next day there was a visit to yet another farm and then a long car ride. They arrived at their destination and everyone went inside a big building and eventually came to a big room with a large table in the middle. AJ and BJ popped out of the Daddy's back-pack and headed over to the Mommy's back-pack just as Monk, Percy, Farmer Ted and the Eyes climbed out.

"We're at the Mommy's office," said Monk, "this is where she comes to work."

... and completely acceptable! lol I order an Erdinger Weissbrau. I thought it fitting as I spent my summer working at the Central Bierhaus Kanata (shameless plug ;) exploring the finest beers Germany has to offer. I hadn't even written one word yet when my first new friend sat down next to me at the bar. Ankit was his name and he had just come off the plane from Delhi, on his way to Toronto for school. What were the odds?! We spent the next hours chatting about our ...